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by notJim 7y ago
> Scooter is more safe than a bicycle (for a rider). Weird, I feel the opposite. You can't really just step off a scooter when its at any decent speed (I accidentally tried when the brakes failed on one… would not recommend.) Scoote
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by notJim 7y ago
Portland's Bureau of Transit did a 120-day study of scooters here which has some interest bits of information. The PDF is here: https://www.portlandoregon.gov/transportation/article/709719 Findings include th
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by notJim 7y ago
https://www.providencejournal.com/article/20150913/ENTERTAIN... : "The wedding of Tara Elizabeth McGowan and Michael Mackay Halle took place Sept. 5 [2015]…" https://twitter.com/mhalle : &
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by notJim 7y ago
Well that's one way to tackle the over-tourism problem.
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by notJim 7y ago
Can you do an impression of Darth Vader out loud? Just curious, because when I do Darth Vader voice in my head, I get a strong urge to do it out loud. Makes me wonder if they're connected.
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by notJim 7y ago
I dunno if I'm taking crazy pills, but it seems like the organizational/deployment-level concerns supposedly solved by microservices are much better solved by continuous deployment, and it's weird to me that this seems to be
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by notJim 7y ago
Regarding point 1, why is coordination required? I think that continuous deployment, where you're integrating dozens of times per day solves this problem much better.
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by notJim 7y ago
Wouldn't continuous deployment and rolling forward be better than switching your entire application architecture? In this scenario, you deploy ~30 times a day. If there's a bad commit, you revert it, and then do another deploy. So
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by notJim 7y ago
> But when you are in the middle, you can't afford to lose much. I agree with your analysis, and would also add that the increasing concentration of good jobs in expensive cities exacerbates this. When the best jobs are all in place
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by notJim 7y ago
People complain about SUVs with a lot of apparently unnecessary capability (4x4, holding lots of people), but the nature of car sales is that you kind of have to buy one that covers all use cases, because it's the only one you're
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by notJim 7y ago
He's comparing the most popular car from Tesla to some of the least-popular cars from the other manufacturers. Audi sold 200k cars in 2019, but they were SUVs, not sedans. I would guess the Model 3 sales will crater when the Model Y co
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by notJim 7y ago
You honestly don't want that, but if it's literally the only option (as it is today), it's a huge advantage.
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by notJim 7y ago
Spending $500 on an electrician for a $50–80k car doesn't sound like lock-in to me…
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by notJim 7y ago
> People forget that EVs are going to likely be on the road a lot longer than ICEVs, due to lower wear-and-tear. Past battery capacity degradation, there isn't much to break. People always say this, but I'm a bit skeptical. I o
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by notJim 7y ago
Once your house is wired for the charger, how hard/expensive is it really to swap it for a different one?
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by notJim 7y ago
I think SuperCharger is the biggest lock-in right now, but the future is surely public fast charger networks, so I'm not sure how long this will last.
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by notJim 7y ago
This one has too few keys for me, but I love the minimal cuteness of these tiny keyboards.
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by notJim 7y ago
It's kind of interesting (or incredibly mundane) how the feature sets of popular web languages have converged. The examples could almost be typescript (and the only reason I don't say Javascript is because of the types.) My unders
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by notJim 7y ago
People have been writing this take (and it has been true) for something like 5–10 years. I doubt anyone who didn't believe it was just waiting for PHP to get type annotations to be convinced.
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by notJim 7y ago
But this wouldn't really be a return-maximizing strategy, would it? I wouldn't expect to hold the same stocks for the entire 30 years, rather I would be constantly looking for medium-term gains and then trying to lock them in once
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by notJim 7y ago
To me it reads more like a diary than a hyper-focused advice piece. Not everything has to be written like a business book, sometimes it's interesting just to read about what someone else has been up to.
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by notJim 7y ago
This is not born out by commute statistics. 86% commute by car in Phoenix compared to 65% in Portland. If you're saying Phoenix can work well at an individual level, I might agree, but as far as urban planning goes, I'd say Portla
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by notJim 7y ago
After like 2-3 months, every micro I've ever had has required me to stretch the cable in some way (i.e., place the phone on top of the cable) in order for it to make contact. Never had this problem with USB C.
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by notJim 7y ago
This seems really optimistic about the adoption of electric cars. I suspect adoption will be drastically slower than you're imagining, and hybrids as well as gas vehicles will remain relevant for a long time still. Toyota of course has
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by notJim 7y ago
Wait a second, is the "copy" the same person, or a whole new person being created?
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by notJim 7y ago
You mean AG Barr, whose father hired Epstein as a 20-year-old college dropout to teach calculus and physics at a prestigious prep school? https://hillreporter.com/the-ties-that-bind-jeffrey-epstein-...
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by notJim 7y ago
This seems right to me. I think most of us have been in situations where we've commiserated with coworkers about a problem that we felt was beyond us to fix, because it's coming from the top. Either management is actively refusing
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by notJim 7y ago
In principle I agree with you, but in practice what often happens is that it takes a herculean effort to pass any bill at all, and politicians are more inclined to declare victory than to pass a follow-up bill. Even if they pass a follow-up
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by notJim 7y ago
From what I've read, the main driver of profitability is longevity of the scooters, and they've already made a lot of progress extending that. > In terms of any environmental benefit, I highly suspect more gasoline is being con
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by notJim 7y ago
> build more housing and put them in it This is exactly what they want. Their contention is that SB50 doesn't place enough emphasis on affordability, so developers will mostly build market-rate housing. If you build enough market ra

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